Thread: Name changed to hide 'Superhighway'?

Ok, I ran several searches and couldn't find this posted here.

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Name changed to hide 'Superhighway'?
WND obtains document revealing original moniker of 'SuperCorridor'

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Posted: September 2, 2007
8:14 p.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


A 1998 document which WND has obtained shows the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, was originally named the North American Superhighway Coalition.

The document plays into an emerging debate in which a number of critics, including President Bush, want to deny that a NAFTA "Superhighway" exists.

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Christopher Hayes, writing in the Aug. 27 edition of the Nation claimed that, "There is no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway."

President Bush at the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Montebello, Quebec, on Aug. 21, answered a question from a reporter at Fox News that NAFTA Superhighways were part of a "conspiracy theory."

The document involves a June 10, 1998, letter written to Tiffany Newsom, executive director of NASCO, by Francisco J. Conde, editor and publisher of the Conde Report on U.S.-Mexico Relations.

Conde addresses NASCO as North America's Superhighway Coalition and compliments Newsom and NASCO for supporting the Interstate Highway 35 Corridor Coalition consulting team at David A. Dean & Associates, P.C. and Dean International, Inc.

The letter goes on to note the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, or TEA-21, was signed into law by President Clinton on June 9, 1998.

Conde writes that, "This bill contains for the first time in history a category and funding for trade corridors and border programs."

He continues, "The I-35 corridor is the strongest and most organized of the corridor initiatives so, if we play our cards right, we stand to get a part of the $700 million."


NASCO's original homepage in June 2006 opened with a map highlighting the I-35 corridor from Mexico to Canada.


Conde was referring to a section of TEA-21 devoted to a new National Corridor Planning and Development program, identifying highway corridors that were specifically identified with international trade and a Coordinated Border Infrastructure program designed "to improve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods at or across the U.S./Canadian and U.S./Mexican borders."

A desire to obtain funds under TEA-21's corridor initiative may have been responsible for changing NASCO's name from North America's Superhighway Coalition to North America's SuperCorridor Coalition.

Interestingly, combining "SuperCorridor" into one word allowed preserving the correspondence required to continue using "NASCO" as the acronym for the newly renamed organization.

A close reading of NASCO's website shows NASCO does not deny that a NAFTA Superhighway exists.

NASCO insists on identifying the NAFTA Superhighway with the existing I-35, denying only that plans exist to build a new NAFTA Superhighway.

As WND has previously reported, this point is made clear by a sentence on the NASCO website which states, "There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighway – it exists today as I-35."

Yet, NASCO has repeatedly refused to repudiate the plans of the Texas Department of Transportation to build the Trans-Texas Corridor as a new four-football-fields wide superhighway corridor parallel to the existing I-35.

An archived version of the NASCO website going back to Oct. 24, 2005, documents that NASCO played a role in lobbying for the creation of the National Corridor & Planning Development program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure program when TEA-21 was being passed.

"We have assisted in the lobbying effort to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the NASCO I-35 Corridor, resulting in High Priority Status for I-35 in 1995 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficacy Act (ISTEA)," the 2005 NASCO website noted. "In addition, we successfully assisted in lobbying for the creation of two new categories under the Transportation Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) – the National Corridor Planning & Development Program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program."


(There is also a map that can be viewed at the link below)

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57444

It doesn't matter what they call it, it doesn't matter how much they lie.......WE KNOW THE TRUTH!

Just a deceitful trick to fool the American people. By the time Americans see that the wool has been pulled over their eyes , it will be too late.

I give credit to these grand masters. They're good at it.

President Bush at the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Montebello, Quebec, on Aug. 21, answered a question from a reporter at Fox News that NAFTA Superhighways were part of a "conspiracy theory."

Misleading answers are the same as lying....

We found that out with Bill Clinton "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" We Empeached his Dumb A _ _

Misleading answers are the same as lying.... let me say this again ... Misleading answers are the same as lying

President Bush answered a question from a reporter at Fox News that NAFTA Superhighways were part of a "conspiracy theory."

You just lied to the American public and I demand Empeachment proceedings begin

Impeachment is not enough.

What he needs is a big ol' husband named Bubba who several times a day gives him a dose of what he's been giving Americans all these years.

EVERY BODY KNOWS THERE ARE PLANS FOR A NAFTA HIGHWAY. WE KNOW IT IS PLANNED AND WHAT IT IS FOR. THEY CAN RENAME IT A THOUSAND TIMES. IT IS STILL A CORRIDOR WHICH WILL RUN THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF OUR COUNTRY. NO ONE WANTS IT.

Looks like they are using the word play that illegals and their supporters utilize-when the public starts to get wise change the wording, they will not figure it out.




Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

I remember seeing the NASCO name in a story about Rudy Guilani's law firm being the sole council for NASCO..or something to that effect. Anyway, Rudy's up to his eyeballs in the NAFTA superhiway and being paid very well I'm sure.

It is weird how information can be sucked of of the Internet.